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These ETFs let you tap the major indexes

The major Canadian and U.S. stock markets, while subject to volatility, have moved back up since their initial COVID-19 drop. Nonetheless, we think that if you can afford to stay in the market for several years or longer, now is still a good time for new buying....

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ETFs

Buy Vietnam’s best

VANECK VECTORS VIETNAM ETF, $14.82, is a buy for aggressive investors. This emerging-markets ETF (New York symbol VNM) lets you tap leading Vietnamese companies as well as foreign firms that get a significant share of their revenue from this Southeast Asian nation....

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Dividend Stocks

Top REITs for income and future growth

RioCan and Choice Properties continue to build new residential, office and industrial properties to cut their exposure to the retail industry. Their new properties—along with store reopenings as the pandemic has eased—should help both REITs raise investor distributions in the next few years....

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Growth Stocks

Loblaw adds a big facility

LOBLAW COMPANIES, $114.01, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol L; Shares outstanding: 328.1 million; Market cap: $37.5 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 1.4%; www.loblaw.ca) is Canada’s largest food retailer, with 1,096 supermarkets....

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Dividend Stocks

These renewables offer high, sustainable yields

With a focus on renewable energy, these two power generators hold a lot of conceptual appeal for investors. Even more important to income-focused investors is their stable cash flows from a diverse mix of hydroelectric, wind and solar assets. That diversity, plus their long-term contracts, will let these utility firms continue to build out their operations and add to your sustainable dividends.

ALGONQUIN POWER & UTILITIES, $17.78, is a buy. The utility (Toronto symbol AQN; Shares o/s: 675.6 million; Market cap: $12.0 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Yield: 4.9%; www.algonquinpower.com) has two main businesses: the Regulated Services Group provides regulated electricity, gas, water distribution and wastewater collection services in Canada, the U.S., Chile and Bermuda; and the Renewable Power Group produces electricity from about 40 clean-energy plants in North America.

Through their Algonquin shares, investors also tap the company’s 44.2% stake in Atlantica Yield plc (symbol AY on Nasdaq)....

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Dividend Stocks

LifeWorks ups Telus’s value

TELUS, $28.57, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol T; Shares outstanding: 1.4 billion; Market cap: $40.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.6%; www.telus.com) is now buying LifeWorks Inc....

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Dividend Stocks

Pembina gives you a solid 5.6% yield

Most of Pembina’s pipelines operate under long-term contracts. That helps lower the company’s risk in today’s uncertain economy. Meanwhile, Pembina’s investors tap a high, sustainable yield. That adds to the stock’s appeal and also supports its share price.

PEMBINA PIPELINE, $46.20, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol PPL; Shares outstanding: 554.3 million; Market cap: $25.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 5.5%; www.pembina.com) operates pipelines that carry half of Alberta’s conventional oil and almost all of B.C.’s oil....

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How To Invest

Q: Pat, may I have your thoughts on nVent Electric? Thank you.

A: nVent Electric plc, $32.01, symbol NVT on New York (Shares outstanding: 166.3 million; Market cap: $5.3 billion; Manufacturing sector; TSINetwork Rating: Average; No dividends paid; www.nvent.com), makes stainless steel, aluminum and non-metallic covers for electrical equipment....

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How To Invest

Q: Hello. I would be interested in your thoughts on Zimmer Biomet (ZBH) in the U.S.? Thanks.

A: Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc., $109.48, symbol ZBH on New York (Shares outstanding: 209.6 million; Market cap: $22.7 billion; www.zimmerbiomet.com), manufactures orthopedic reconstructive implants and surgical equipment for orthopedic surgeries....

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How To Invest

Q: Pat, I buy my eyeglasses from Warby Parker. What do you think of the stock? Thanks for all the advice.

A: Warby Parker Inc., $12.94, symbol WRBY on New York (Shares outstanding: 95.3 million; Market cap: $1.5 billion; www.warbyparker.com), is a prescription eyewear seller founded in 2010 by four friends attending business school who had a vision to disrupt the traditional eyewear industry....

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Spinoffs

One of the ways a company can try to unlock its own hidden value is by creating a separate company out of a corporate subsidiary. The parent company can either sell stock in the new company to the public, or spin it off—hand the stock out to its own investors.

Dividend Stocks

Dividend stocks make cash payouts that serve as a way for companies to share the wealth they’ve accumulated. These payouts are drawn from earnings and cash flow and paid to the shareholders of the company. Typically, these dividends are paid quarterly, although they may be paid annually or even monthly as well.

ETFs

What are ETFs?

ETF is an acronym for exchange traded fund. These exchange traded funds are used to track indexes as closely as possible, since investors cannot actually buy an index outright.

Value Stocks

What are value stocks?

One of the sweetest and most profitable pleasures of successful investing is to buy high-quality “value stocks” (or stocks that are reasonably priced, if not cheap, in relation to its sales, earnings or assets), then hold on to them as mainstream investors recognize the value and push up the share price.

Blue Chip Stocks

Blue chip stocks are big, well-established, dividend-paying corporations with strong business prospects. These are companies that also have sound management that should be able to make the right moves to keep competing successfully in a changing marketplace.

Penny Stocks

A penny stock in general trades for under five dollars a share, and as the name implies, sometimes for pennies. Most of the time they’re young companies, or start-ups in speculative markets like mining or technology.

Growth Stocks

Growth stocks are companies that are likely to have sales and earnings growth well above market average. Frequently they pay few, if any, dividends. Instead they typically reinvest any extra cash flow to promote further growth. Chosen wisely—according to Pat McKeough’s advice—high-quality growth-oriented stocks can be worthwhile additions to most well-diversified portfolios.

Wealth Management

Wealth management is the practice of putting your savings to work so that it continues to grow over your lifetime and will also benefit your heirs. Wealth management encompasses many different areas of investing like long term investment planning and retirement planning.

Mining Stocks

Mining stocks are investments in companies that produce or explore for minerals. Some of these minerals include uranium, coal, molybdenum (which is used in steelmaking), copper, silver and gold. They are affected by fluctuating commodity prices in addition to their own business and operating risks.

How To Invest

Pat McKeough has been making investing for beginners simple—and profitable—by helping investors make big gains for more than 25 years. His advice to beginning investors is the same as it is for all investors: buy high-quality, mostly dividend paying stocks (or ETFs that hold these stocks) and evenly spread your investments over the five main economic sectors (Resources, Manufacturing, Finance, Utilities and Consumer). Pat also believes investors should avoid stocks in the broker/media limelight and focus on those with hidden or little-noticed assets.

Energy Stocks

What are energy stocks?

Businesses that work in the extraction, refining and delivery of energy sources such as natural gas, oil, uranium and coal, are considered energy stocks.